Diary Update

Well, I seem to be busy (or at least feel busy) again...I already feel like I need a holiday and I just had five days off last week!

I guess this teaching business is more tiring than it looks. My darling husband often says "You've only got a half day today right?" which is true on Tuesdays and Fridays, but I am still buggered and recovering basically from the three classes I have on Mondays and Thursdays. It is a block of five classes over two days without preparation time in between that seems to do me in. Just when I have finished three demanding (two eigo - so demanding in terms of patience and energy; one C class, so demanding in terms of keeping people awake and on task - including myself!) classes, I have two think about two more before 9am the next morning. Some would say I should prepare the week before, and I do sometimes, but it is difficult to prepare too far in ahead - I always need to look at things again before class and see what is suitable....The same process happens again on Thursday (three classes from first period to fifth period), I leave the house at about 7;30am, get home twelve hours later and then have two classes the following morning.

Actually, I really love my timetable, because it means I don't waste too much time preparing - I find I am still doing good enough classes even without preparing for every step. This timetable is also a million times better than last year where I had three days finishing at 6pm - which meant I was very tired when I went to pick up a very tired Rai at 6;30pm. Another day started with a 9am class, so my body clock was completely out of sync!!

I don't seem as tired these days and I put that down to kicking my lovely boy out of my bed! Although it is a double bed, it ain't big and I wonder how couples survive in it. As for me, everytime Rai moved or sighed or coughed or asked for water or lost his blankie, I would wake up - and usually wake up completely, so it was difficult to fall asleep.

These days, I am sleeping so well that I sometimes wake up naturally at 6:30am after a good 8 hours unbroken sleep. This morning I woke up at 4:40am but it didn't matter - I had had seven and a half hours sleep and felt fine and still feel fine now.

So...what is all this rambling in aid of? Well, I have two purposes:

1. To add more words to my blog count - my aim is to reach 50,000 words my teh end of November

2. To avoid preparing for S*ka University tomorrow - I will be observed for my fifth period class, so I should try to produce something amazing, but at this point I am thinking I will just do what I normally do. I mean, there are only three students in the class and I am going to be observed "teaching" them?! I think I will just ask for feedback on my materials and tasks...

So, here we are. I will now go back to the IELTS task that I wrote previously and do some other stuff.

Later.